[2026:JHHC:22152] -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 4103 of 2026 1. Deena Mahto @ Dineshwar Mahto, aged about 54 years, S/o late Jivardhan Mahto, R/o Gram kargalo, P.O. Achaljamo, P.S. Bishnugarh, District Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. 2. Hemlal Mahto, aged about 54 years, S/o late Doulat Mahto, R/o Loutwabandh, P.O. Achaljamo, P.S. Bishnugarh, District Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. ..... … Petitioners Versus The State of Jharkhand ..... … Opposite Party -------- CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ------ For the Petitioners : Mr. Baibhaw Gahlaut, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Abhay Kumar Tiwari, A.P.P. ------ 05/ 27.07.2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with G.(F) Case No. 482 of 2017, registered for the offence under Section 33 of the Indian Forest Act, pending in the court of learned S.D.J.M., Hazaribagh. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that it has been alleged that the petitioners were trying to construct the boundary wall upon the forest land. He next submits that petitioners are nothing to do with the said allegation. He further submits that the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been made in para-09 of the petition. 4. Learned A.P.P. appearing for the State has opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of trying to construct the boundary wall on the forest land. 5. Considering the allegation that the petitioners were only trying to construct the boundary wall in the forest land, however, the boundary wall was not constructed and further the petitioners are having no criminal antecedent and disclosure to that effect has been [2026:JHHC:22152] -2- made in para-09 of the petition and in the attending facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners, above named. 6. Accordingly, the petitioners, named above, are directed to surrender before the learned court within three weeks from today and in the event of their surrender / arrest, the petitioners shall be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 25,000/- (twenty five thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M., Hazaribagh, in connection with G.(F) Case No. 482 of 2017, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Dated:-27.07.2026 Amitesh/-